Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @01:22AM from the if-that-day-hasn't-arrived-already dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Think today's world, where Apple is the innovative underdog, Google is the company that does no evil, and Microsoft sits atop its throne as ruler of an evil empire. Will this state of affairs last forever? You must not remember the days when everybody loved that scrappy upstart Bill Gates. Don Reisinger muses on the fickleness of consumer loves and hates. 'It's that same [level of] success and its own questionable privacy practices that will lead to Google's PR downfall and propel it into a position of disdain going forward. Trust me, the future of Apple and Google may look bright from an economic standpoint, but these companies will be hated one day too. Sad, but true.'"

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Re:Not quite the same by linumax · 2008-03-25 01:42 · Score: 5, Informative

Apple and Google wrote their own software from the ground up. Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer
The only thing they use that isn't theirs is *occasionally* zope/plone and whatever web server du jour. Umm... Google Maps?! Youtube? Picasa? Google Earth?

and in Apple's case, Darwin that you conceded, Filemaker? iTunes (not the store) ?

others are pointing out more.
Are you RDF positive?